on city streets with an updated ordinance, making many residents excited...assurrounding communities have already passed similar laws. the updated ordinance was approved and passed on january 5th. jason vacura, the assistant city administrator believes the vehicles are popular in the community, but wishes that those that choose to ride in an atv or snowmobile take it seriously and with precaution. "just be safe of them, i mean that would be my last comment. i mean they're still a vehicle not to screw around with. you still have to follow the same rules as anybody driving a vehicle, or a car, or a pick up. you still have to follow the same stuff so treat it that way," said vacura. the vehicles are only allowed on city streets and are not welcomed on state highways or city lands. drivers will have to be 16 years or older, have a valid driver's liscense and have registration for the off-road vehichles. bria: tonight at 10, you'll hear more

reproting live in studio, bria bell abc 9 news. jenna: a santee man who was the subject of a manhunt this week has died. the f-b-i confirms david hoffman shot himself while police were trying to take him into custody yesterday on the santee reservation. jenna: f-b-i and knox county officials say the 25-year- old died from a self inflicted gunshot wound. officials says no law enforcement officers fired their weapons during the encounter. hoffman had been on the run from authorities since tuesday when he disarmed an officer in niobrara, threatened him with the weapon... and then fled. hoffman's body will undergo and autopy and the gun he used is being tested, as well. tim: all miners stuck in an underground elevator at a central new york salt mine ovnight have been rescued. the miners were beginning their shift around 10 wednesday night when that elevator became stuck. emergency workers made contact with the miners by radio before the rescue effort began. crews managed to

blankets keeping miners warm during the rescue operation. then -- great news. news. "extremely relieved and happy to say they're out. all 17 miners that were stuck in the shaft in the elevator have been safely removed." the mine owned by cargill, processes salt that is used to treat roads for wintry weather. the companies website says the mine produces about two million tons of salt that is shipped to more than 15-hundred places in the northeastern u-s. the rock salt mine is one of three operated by cargill. the other two are in louisiana and ohio. jenna: presidential candidate rand paul celebrated his birthday in sioux city today. the pennsylvania senator spoke to voters at the sioux city public library branch downtown. paul talked abut his view on a nucular power and north korea... and how he feels that they are not entirely stable. "you know i think north korea is one of the few nuclear powers that really has some instability, is putting it lightly, in their leadership and it is a real

to be able to influence their behavior is through r pressure, sanctions, and international pressure from all the countries that surround them." say presidential candidate rand paul. more than 50 people were at the meet and greet, voters say paul won them over with his stance on the current issues. "i really like that he is liberal with his social policies, he wants to take control of our debt which is huge. i really that he's not looking to start a war with anybody. it would take him messing up alot to lose my vote." says rand paul supporter amanda johnson. paul also made a stop in council bluffs earlier in the day. tim: and the candidates keep on coming through siouxland carly fiorina is making several stops in siouxland including here in sioux city. she'll be holding a town hall meeting at bev's on the river that's scheduled for 5:30 on monday. january 11th. tuesday, she'll be

stops including one in holstien. tim: ben carson was showing his support for police in military today in cedar rapids. that's where he held a town hall meeting earlier today, e retired neurosurgeon saying his campaign team is stronger and "more action oriented." that's of course after several resignations from key position holders in his campaign last week. carson says he's moving forward. jenna: republican candidate ted cruz has announced bob vander plaats as his national co-chair. vander plaats, who gave cruz his blessing early in december, is the president and ceo of the family leader and an influential conservative and evangelical leader. vander plaats has been touring the state with cruz this week during the "cruzin' for caucus" iowa bus tour, visiting 28 counties in six days. tim: two days ago, president obama unveiled a series of executive actions aimed at reducing gun violence. tonight, he'll sit down for a one-hour town hall with a live audience to talk

caifa (prono: kay- fuh) joi us live from fairfax, virginia, where the event will take place in just a few hours. " " gun violence has prompted some of president obama's most intense public emotion. at a memorial after a charleston, south carolina, church (nats) "amazing grace...." after an oregon community college shooting last october -- (president barack obama) the nversation in the aftermath of it, we become numb to it. and on tuesday, when he announced he'd bypass congress with executive orders that - among other steps -- expand background checks for gun buyers, and narrow the so- called "gun show loophole," that leaves most small exempt from keeping records. (president barack obama) the constant excuses for inaction no longer do. a cnn/orc poll released last month found 48 percent of americans support stricter gun laws, and 51 percent opposed. and among those opposed -- emotions run just as high. republicans slammed the president's actions as unconstitutional. speaker) the president clearly

rights for law- abiding americans. (jeb bush(r) presidential candidate) it will take rights away from law- abiding citizens. (donald trump/(r) presidential candidate) they're not going to take your guns away, not gonna do it. they're trying. so, before a live audience divided between supporters of further gun regulation and those who oppose it-- the president will make another push, on an issue that -- like it or not - has dominated his presidency. in fairfax, virginia, i'm karin caifa. jenna: jim's burger is expanding to sioux falls a former kfc will be the first sioux falls location for the iowa- based burger joint. this will be the sixth location in the 13 years that the chain has been around. and this will actually be the second kfc that the first one being here in sioux ago. the owner

another sioux falls location after seeing how this first one goes. tim: 4 thousand dollars is up for grabs for siouxland entrepreneurs. briar cliff university is hosting a grant competition calledwimming with sharks, this february. the competition will give siouxland entreprenuers the chance to win up to 4 thousand dollars for their business. applications are due by midnight on february first and from there 7 finalists will be judging, which will take place on the 5th at briar cliff. jenna: coming up after the break... a lot of folks take supplements, but could taking them land you a trip to the emergency room? (fred) accumulating snow is coming tonight and tomorrow, and an arctic blast is going to visit us for the weekend. next week, the cold air will stick around. stay with us! " " tim/jenna/fred (tim) fred, how much snow is coming? (fred) for most of us, 1-2". for a few, there will

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conditions are slick in spots. be careful if you have neal welding shows lower visibility from the ho chunk centre. 36 is the high and 34 the low. 35 is the temperature in sioux city. visibility is poor around siouxland. local temperatures are in the 30s. looking at our midwest temperatures, we can see cold air in the northwest. this cold air will hold off tomorrow, then push in saturday. the satellite and radar shows a band of snow pushing in. the stormcast hd shows snow tonight and tomorrow, ending by saturday when a push of cold arctic air will arrive. the snow forecast shows a widespread 1-2" with a few totals other item will be weekend, reaching sunday morning. your forecast for tonight is for snow tomorow, look for light snow and a

shows highs in the teens and 20s for the rest of the 7-day forecast with dry weather after tomorrow. jenna/tim/fred

still to come... supplements send more than 23- thousand people to the e.r. every year. coming up , we'll take a look at just how safe they are.

pesky new yeargovernment is lending some advice. lending some advice. according to a new report - you need to cut way back on sugar! but most folks wonder is this new news? the 2015-2020 dietary guidelines for americans recommends limiting the amount of added sugars in our diet to no more than 10-percent of daily calories. that's about 12 teaspoons of sugar a day! to put that in perspective, a can of coke contains about 10 teaspoons. jenna: vitamins and supplements are big business, but there is a

supplements are more than 23- thousand emergency room visits every year... and 10 percent of them were serious enough to require hospitilization. jennifer whalen has the details in today's health minute " " more americans are taking dietary supplements and according to a n study by federal health experts many of them are ending up in the emergency department as a result. the study was a between the centers for disease control and prevention and administration. geller/medical officers, cdc)" we found that over a quarter of them were young adults. these are people aged 20 to 34. these people were using supplements for weight loss or energy." (butt to) over a fifth were young children, that's 20 percent that had gotten into supplements intended for somebody else." but the nutritional supplement industry insists the majority of their products are safe and the study's results are being overblown. (dr. brad bongiovanni/naturop athic physician) " he heaine, 23,000 emergency room visits every year are caused by supplements. is like wow, that sounds like a lot. but relatively speaking it's less than 5

emergency room visits." dr. geller advises everyone to take precautions with these products. (dr. andrew geller/medical officers, cdc)"to all supplement consumers, we encourage you to report to your doctor that you are taking supplements. and to store your supplements as you would medication, up and away from kids." jenna: dietary supplements in the united states don't require safety testing or f-d-a approval before being sold and marketed. so unlike prescription drugs, dietary the united states don't require safety testing or f-d-a approval before being sold so unlike drugs, dietary considered safe until proven otherwise. jenna: state didn't have night but did we'll hear from ahead. tim: plus...the tenth underway this afternoon.

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from all over at the tyson events center seventeen games, school, two played through saturday night. one of the highlights of day one? number 14 spencer taking on the three time defending champions from pierce. late in the first quarter...sara bauermeister, cans the midrange jay for the tigers to cut the lead to 9-5...but it was all blue jays from there. on the inbounds...carly sutherland rolls to the hoop and cashes in for two...pierce up half a dozen. the inside game was working...shelby bretschneider gets position inside for the easy pair...the lead up to double digits. then bretschneider, kicks it out to sutherland in the corner...she tickles the twine as pierce goes up 18-5. late in the half now, bretschneider shows off her range...it was 25-5 at the break...pierce wins it easy, 43-18. in the first game of the day.woodbury

off with north. early in the first...stars up one but payge ronfeldt, changes that...the old fashioned 3 point play puts the cats up 1. north responds right away...mercy oyadare goes coast to coast...strong finish knots things up. on the other end...keely steffen, i promise she's there behind the official. triple puts wc up three. but it was a tight first quarter...breonia farris...gets to the paint...hoop d the hack ties it up again. but woodbury central pulled away...ronfeldt out on the bre again and th wildcats win it by 20, 54-34. here's a look at the rest of the here's a look at the rest of the slate today. spencer and lawton bronson are in action right now in a boys battle. then east tries to bounce back from their loss to abe lincoln tuesday against le mars. the final game on the schedule has been canceled. ponca was supposed to take on ahstw but poor weather to the south and travel concerns

schedule. in the college ranks, iowa state evened their record at 1-1 in big twelve play with a tough 76-69 win over texas tech last night. the cyclones got a career high 22 points from matt thomas and needed them as georges niang got into early foul trouble and only played 23 minutes. winning when they didn't play their best basketball, was a big step for isu. steve prohm--""there were some when i watched the tape. you know a couple shots missed against the zone that we missed that were just you hope you make the wide open shots or some layups around the rim. you hope you finish and make those and we didn't. and credit texas tech for doing a good job in some of that. but you gotta win ugly sometimes you gotta win on bad shooting nights that happens. " georges niang--"you know i think it speaks volumes to our character through games you know you've seen this year we're not going to quit we're going to keep pushing and eventually we are going to pull through. i think that's the biggest thing for us if we keep our head down to the ground and keep on pushing uhh good things are going to happen" chris: after two seasons at the university of

university of missouri, former hinton star kasey reuter is transferring to iowa to continue her college volleyball career. reuter played in 31 matches with 12 starts two years ago as a freshman for mizzou and then redshirted for the 2015 season. during her prep career at hinton, reuter was a three time all state performer and helped lead the blackhawks to the state tournament as a senior. reuter will have 3 years of eligibility remaining as she joins former heelan star lauren brobst in iowa city. finally it's a big week in the nfl as the wild card playoffs get under way. abc9 is your home for one of those afc matchups between the kansas city chiefs and houston texans. pregame starts at 1 on saturday with kickoff at 3:30. the chiefs, looking for their

" " it's time for our facebook fan photo of the day. today's picture comes from... the woodbury county sheriff's office. they posted this "throw back thursday" photo of sheriff dave drew who has been with the office for 32 years. if you're like to submit a facebook fan photo, just post it on our abc-9 facebook page. fan photo, just post it on our abc-9 facebook page. jenna/tim/chris/fred: (fred) radar shows snow moving in. your forecast for tonight is for snow and a low of 30. tomorow, look for light snow and a

shows highs in the teens and 20s for the rest of the 7-day forecast with dry weather after tomorrow.